Indonesian police say Papua New Guinea rebels killed a New Zealand helicopter pilot Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s troubled Papua region on Monday, freeing two health workers and two children it was carrying, police said. Glen Malcolm Conninga pilot for the Indonesian aviation company ...
Authorities fear a second landslide and infectious outbreak loom at the site of the massive disaster in Papua New Guinea because bodies and streams were buried under tons of debris that leveled a village, a U.N. official said Tuesday. A mass of rocks, dirt and broken trees devastated the town of Yambali, in the remote ...
Authorities estimate that there are more than 2,000 people buried in mud, rocks and debris. The authorities of Papua New Guinea they estimate more than 2,000 people could have been buried due to the devastating landslide and rockslide that took place last Friday and that has affected hundreds of homes that have been buried in ...
More than 2,000 people may have been buried in a landslide on Friday, a government official in South Africa told the United Nations on Monday. Papua New Guineawhich officially requested international help. The government figure is about three times higher than the United Nations estimate of 670 dead in the landslide in the mountainous interior ...
The International Organization for Migration, UN agency, rose this Sunday to more than 670 people estimated dead of a huge landslide in Papua New Guinea. The revised figure was based on calculations by town officials Yambali and the province of Enga about what more than 150 homes had been buried for Friday's incident, said Serhan ...
The landslide has buried 1,182 houses, in a town where 3,895 people live It is estimated that more than 100 people died this Friday in a landslide that buried a village in a remote, mountainous area of Papua New Guinea. An emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide ...
Explorers found what they believe is the plane knocked down from World War II ace Richard Bong in the South Pacific. The announcement was made on Thursday May 23after the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsinand the nonprofit historic preservation group Pacific Wrecks They will begin a joint search for the fighter ...
The DNA of the Denisovansour extinct prehistoric cousins, still surprises the scientific community for its persistent influence on modern humans, particularly among Inhabitants of Papua New Guinea. These people, whose genetic history remained largely isolated for millennia, possess unique genetic characteristics that allowed them to adapt and survive in one of the most challenging environments ...
After more than 80 years since his disappearance in action during the Second World Warthe remains of an Australian bomber Beaufort and two members of his crew were found in the deep waters off the coast of Papua New Guinea. This finding It marked the end of an exhaustive search undertaken in an area full ...
Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore from September 2 to 13, in one of the longest trips of his pontificate, the Vatican reported this Friday. The Holy See reported that accepting the invitation of the respective Heads of State and ecclesiastical authorities, Pope Francis will visit Jakarta from September ...
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